Chestermere, AB · Private foundation
Varico Charitable Foundation
Support to qualified donees and grantees to advance education religion alleviate poverty and homelessness; provide medical provisions and contribute to the benefit of the community.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k4 grants · C$21k
- C$10k–50k5 grants · C$87k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$208k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | C$153,001 |
| LAKE RIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH | C$55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$25,177 |
| ADOPTION OPTIONS ALBERTA | C$25,000 |
| INCLUSIVE ORGANIZATION | C$13,778 |
| SOS CHILDRENS VILLAGES CANADA | C$13,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | C$10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$8,748 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES | C$5,000 |
| MINISTRES CHRETIENS DU CAP HAITIAN | C$4,466 |
| CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY | C$2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 79% of grant dollars (C$1.5M). The 21% that went abroad (C$391k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 21% of all-years giving (C$391k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”
Backed again, and grew
- LCLAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH8× · 2017–2024 · C$464k · revenue +38% · 26% of their budget
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY8× · 2017–2024 · C$65k · revenue ×13 · 27% of their budget
- CHCANADA HELPS4× · 2020–2023 · C$49k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- S2Sante 2000 Dr. Emmanual Maureusone grant, 2022 · C$41k
- CCNIBgraduatedone grant, 2020 · C$31k · revenue +39%
- COCITY OF CHESTERMEREone grant, 2020 · C$20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Compassion Canada is a leading Christian child development organization whose mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Our proven child development program provides infants children and youth around the world with the…
We engage in and promote Christian mission work in Canada and in foreign countries -We engage in humanitarian mission work in foreign countries including relief of poverty medical relief and operation of a number of daycare facilities. -We…
Cbm is a global mission organization committed to sharing god's love through word and deed. we believe that god brings healing to a broken world through local churches. with over 150 years of experience we have seen that words and deeds…
Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…
Habitat for Humanity Canada' brings communities together to help families build strength stability and independence through affordable homeownership. In fulfilling this mission we provide resources training and ongoing support to help…
Our primary program involves rescuing homeless abandoned freezing starving dogs and puppies and to a few amount cats and kittens in Alberta as well as Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Rescued animals are matched in our Foster Program a highly…
ShelterBox Canada provides shelter essential items and technical assistance to help some of the world’s most vulnerable people recover and rebuild their homes after disaster. ShelterBox teams listen and adapt our support to the needs of…
Christian philanthropic work that provides: - Evangelism and discipleship strategies and resources for churches and individuals - Support for children in various nations
Missions Support to Qualified Donees and Through an Agency Agreement
Our mission is to support and partner with Christian churches and relief organizations around the world to share our faith disciple teach train and serve. We focus on Church Planting & Evangelism Relief & Development and Leadership…
Resource for Christian Camps and Conference Centres across Canada; training events for Christian Camp and Conference Centre leaders; networking with other Christian Associations in Canada and throughout the world involved in furthering…
Providing health education by instruction to the public regarding hiv/aids; providing basic necessities of life such as shelter and medical assistance to children orphaned by hiv/aids; teaching the christian faith. all of 1-3 take place in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Samaritan's Purse - Canada and the most unlike its peers is Janus Academy Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada ↗
- Who funds SOS CHILDRENS VILLAGES ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds HEALING HEARTS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CANADA HELPS ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CNIB ↗
- Who funds MULTI-NATION MISSIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRAGG CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD ↗
- Who funds EMI Canada ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society ↗
- Who funds JANUS ACADEMY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Werklund Foundation · Olympia Charitable Foundation · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Lily Street Foundation · Canadian National Christian Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Suncor Energy Foundation/Fondation Suncor Energie · Carthy Foundation · Atco Electric Epic
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.